India and Japan meet to discuss RE future

Ongoing forum seeks to increase technology cooperation.

India and Japan are currently meeting at the 5th edition of India-Japan Energy Forum in Mumbai. The two-day forum that began yesterday gives Indian and Japanese stakeholders the opportunity to discuss various technological and policy related issues in energy efficiency and renewable energy.

The forum is especially important to India, which aims to meet its power needs by adding 88 GW of conventional power and 30 GW of renewable energy.

It is co-sponsored by India’s The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) in association with Japan’s New Energy and Technology Development Organization or NEDO.

This forum serves as a platform for information exchange among experts from the public and private sectors in the field of energy from India and Japan. NEDO said Japan and India will soon announce the outcome of a joint research with TERI.